methodfive Takes Publishing Industry Online With Breakthrough Systems.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1998--

Company Cites Exponential Growth, Multiplying Client List

Leading Silicon Alley Web development company, methodfive, announced today that its proprietary publishing tool, Volume Publisher, recently reached critical mass, publishing over 500 articles a day online.

Each day methodfive's technology drives 19 daily and 11 weekly online newspapers in eight states, including over 500 articles and more than 5,000 classified ads. Through this content, more than 90,000 banner ads are served each week, and more than 1,400 interactive communities are published and maintained.

Volume Publisher enables content-rich companies to publish news, advertisements and community features across many publications at once -- easily and with configurable automation. This technology allows media and publishing companies to produce and maintain multiple publications without having to assign technical and editorial personnel to each one.

On June 9, Journal Register Company (NYSE:JRC), awarded methodfive a contract to launch 43 additional weekly newspapers online, using the company's intelligent publishing tools. Editors can easily select articles from their existing materials and instantly publish them online. methodfive expects this new initiative to result in the publication of more than 5,000 articles per day by the end of the 1998, with additional network and system expansion planned to allow even higher capacity.

Through its configurable automation, the methodfive technology is adaptable to a wide range of publishing applications. According to methodfive Technical Director Steven Turoff, "The success of the Volume Publisher can be attributed to the fact that it's highly adaptable which allows us to provide the right mix of functionality for each publication, whether large or small. You can edit and maintain hundreds of publications and content areas as easily as you could a handful using the traditional techniques." Adds Ressi, "Our custom-built technology has quickly made us the premier one-stop online publishing resource. We've empowered publishers with the tools they need to let them focus on what they do best -- produce content."

methodfive LLC is a large-scale Web developer founded in 1995. The company has grown internationally, helping large clients take advantage of the Internet across the continental U.S., Europe and Asia.

CONTACT: For further information

Megan Mullins

212/539-0900

pr@methodfive.com

http://www.methodfive.com

New Embedded Network Computers -- E/NC -- from Flat Connections to Employ RSA Encryption Technology.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 1996--RSA Data Security, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDTI), and Flat Connections, Inc. today announced that the two companies had entered into a license agreement to embed RSA's encryption technology into a new line of Flatware embedded network computing (E/NC) products.

Under the terms of the agreement, Flat Connections will embed RSA's BSAFE encryption and authentication technology in its new Flatware product line, a Java-based embedded network computing platform serving a wide range of applications, that will be introduced at Fall COMDEX '96.

Flatware is designed to provide a secure and isolated environment for strong encryption. Applications developed with Flatware make use of an encryption engine that provides portable storage of keys and certificates.

"We are very pleased to be working closely with RSA," said Dr. Baldev Krishan, president and CEO of Flat Connections. "We consider RSA's cryptography technology to be integral to ensuring safe and secure application transactions. RSA's BSAFE engine will allow us to create a platform product that provides superior encryption and authentication for secure and intelligent Internet connections."

"RSA is playing a leading role in the development of secure network interfaces and communication implementations," said Jim Bidzos, president of RSA. "We believe that Flat Connections' offering of a hardware-based cryptography solution at the point of connection on the Internet is an exciting and innovative approach."

Flat Connections' first use of RSA cryptography will be in Sumba, a Flatware product providing a personal firewall that delivers strong encryption, secure e-mail and real-time virus checking for Internet communications. As an embedded network computer, Sumba includes the Java virtual machine and standard Java APIs, and complies with Microsoft Corp.'s Cryptographic (CAPI 2.0) API. In addition, Sumba's Java processor performs security and anti-virus processing tasks.

Initial applications where RSA security will be employed include financial brokerage, electronic commerce, medical records and private communications, where information is downloaded from a network and which, for security reasons, must remain memory-resident in a safe and isolated environment.

Secure e-mail is provided through seamless integration with Microsoft's MS Exchange mail application using OLE extensions for delivering signed and encrypted messages. With RSA technology, Sumba supports user key lengths of up to 1024 bits, significantly enhancing standard cryptographic application delivery. Sumba's coprocessor speeds the intensive work required to implement cryptographic algorithms with long key lengths, which might otherwise slow down the user's computer.

"Flat Connections believes that security must be an integral part of any network connection. By embedding RSA technologies into our Flat Processor, Flat Connections is providing the infrastructure to create highly secure points of connection in the network. This is an essential ingredient to enabling flat architectures," said Kal Krishnan, vice president of software engineering of Flat Connections. "Using RSA's specially optimized BSAFE libraries, we found a method for using a protocol that was both secure and transparent and gave us the performance levels and functionality we needed."

Developers at Flat Connections will use RSA's BSAFE software developers' toolkit to build security into the company's products. BSAFE is a leading cryptography engine and provides software developers with multiple algorithms and modules for adding encryption and authentication features to applications. BSAFE includes modules for popular encryption techniques, such as RSA, DES, RC2, and RC4, and also supports digital signatures and certificates.

Flat Connections, Inc.

Flat Connections specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing products which enable devices to communicate more intelligently over networks. These products support Flat Connections' continuing evolution towards a world of "flat architectures," where network devices become increasingly intelligent -- making the World Wide Web run faster and more secure. The company plans to offer a full range of Flatware products to meet the needs of a diverse range of applications.

Flat Connections, Inc. is funded by a group of investors led by the venture capital division of Pulsar, S.A. de C.V., a Monterrey, Mexico-based company with US $2.5 billion in annual sales.

For more information, contact Flat Connections, Inc. at 510/249-9777 or 800/510-FLAT, or e-mail at www.flatconnect.com.

RSA Data Security, Inc.

RSA Data Security, Inc. is the world's brand name for cryptography, with more than 75 million copies of RSA encryption and authentication technologies installed and in use worldwide. RSA technologies are part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet and World Wide Web, CCITT, ISO, ANSI, IEEE, and business, financial and electronic commerce networks around the globe.

The company develops and markets platform-independent developers' kits and end-user products and provides comprehensive cryptographic consulting services. Founded in 1982 by the inventors of the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. -0-

Note to Editors: BSAFE and TIPEM are trademarks of RSA Data Security, Inc. Flatware and Sumba are trademarks of Flat Connections, Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective corporations.

RSA Data Security will be in Booth P5012 at Fall COMDEX. Flat Connections will be in Booth H832, and also at RSA Place, Booth P5012.

CONTACT: For additional information about RSA:

Patrick Corman, 415/326-9648

corman@cerfnet.com

or

For information about Flat Connections:

Maurissa Frost, 847/291-1616, extension 28

High Availability System Development Requirements Are Evolving in the Context of the Evolution of Blade Servers According to Study.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c76614) has announced the addition of "High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2007 to 2013" to their offering.

The convergence of IT and communications infrastructure is placing complex high availability, system clustering, and manageability requirements on system development. These requirements create tremendous problems with respect to scalability, development cost, time-to-market, and resources allocated to core competencies.

Middleware is positioned to decrease ongoing maintenance cost associated with infrastructure software. The consumer and corporate demand for more sophisticated telecom services, the viability of standards technologies and the emergence of new competitors are leading industry players to view COTS software as an imperative.

The technical requirements for deploying real-time services over global networks continue to grow. Applications must work in real-time, with low latency, and scale to millions of users. Yet traditional enterprise software solutions have reached their performance limits. Complex legacy applications are difficult, if not impossible, to grow or change.

The growing shift of the telecommunications market to a modular communications platform architecture will enable carriers to more rapidly deploy new services, reduce operating costs, and easily scale with demand. The success of Advanced TCA solutions is built from interoperable, carrier grade, high-performance off-the-shelf building blocks including Intel[R] processors and high availability middleware.

High availability system development requirements are evolving in the context of the evolution of blade servers. Blade servers are small, dense computers tied together with software that balances the processing workload between them. One refrigerator-size mainframe is more efficient than units that hold more than 300 blade servers. The mainframe is significantly more efficient and reliable than 500 of the smallest servers that can fit in the same-size rack. The mainframe systems are far more efficient than densely packed server systems.

High availability high reliability telecommunications middleware market forecasts indicate that markets of $792.6 million in 2006 are anticipated to reach $2.1 billion by 2013. Markets are anticipated to grow in response to the need of all equipment providers to adapt to open systems replacing current proprietary middleware systems.

Authors Bio:

Ellen T. Curtiss conducts strategic and market assessments in technology-based industries. Previously she was a member of the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., for 23 years, most recently as Vice President of Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, specializing in strategic planning and market development services. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Program for Management Development at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She is the author of recent studies on worldwide telecommunications markets and the Top Ten Telecommunications market analysis and forecasts.

Susan Eustis has done research in communications and computer markets and applications. She holds several patents in microcomputing and parallel processing. She is the author of recent studies of the Regional Bell Operating Companies' marketing strategies, Internet equipment, a study of Internet Equipment, Worldwide Telecommunications Equipment, Top Ten Telecommunications, Digital Loop Carrier, Web Hosting, and Application Integration markets. Ms. Eustis is a graduate of Barnard College

Contents:

High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Executive Summary Es-1

1. High Availability, High Reliability Next Generation Network (Ngn) Market Description And Market Dynamics 1-1

2. High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Market Shares And Market Forecasts 2-1

3. High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Products 3-1

4. High Availability, High Reliability Next Generation Network (Ngn) Technology 4-1

5. High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Company Profiles 5-1

List Of Tables And Figures

High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Executive Summary

Table Es-1 Es-2

High Availability High Reliability Next Generation Network (Ngn) Market Description And Market Dynamics

Table 1-1 1-4

High Availability High Reliability Telecommunications Middleware Product Description

High Availability High Reliability Next Generation Network (Ngn) Technology

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c76614

Medion MD 8800.(desktop computer)(Product/service evaluation)

Byline: Luke Peters

Medion MD 8800

If value for money is your mantra, this desktop computer speaks all the right words

A time-limited deal isn't the most convenient way of buying a new computer but be quick and you can bag a bargain.

In conjunction with Aldi, Medion has been supplying the UK with fantastic computer deals for several years and its latest offer is no exception.

The MD 8800 is Medion's latest entertainment PC.

It sports a brand new case design and contains almost everything that today's computers can handle.

It doesn't come with a monitor, so factor that into the cost, or make use of

its other sockets for connecting to a TV.

The MD 8800 has a fast 3GHz Intel Pentium D Dual Core 830 processor, 1Gb of memory and a 250Gb hard disk. In our tests, this performed very well, proving perfectly adept in basic office and internet tasks as well as more system-intensive applications such as image and video editing. What's more, it does everything very fast.

Where multimedia is concerned, this computer has it all. It has no less than three dual TV tuners, which will let you watch one TV channel while recording another. The three tuners can support DVB-S (if you've got a satellite dish), DVB-T (Freeview from a standard TV aerial) and analogue (for normal terrestrial TV). Medion also supplies its own Home Cinema software for watching, recording and pausing live television.

It's a great alternative to Microsoft's Media Center or Sky+, however you must have this computer connected to your main TV if you plan to

use it as a PVR; unless you're happy to watch on a monitor. Thankfully, it's quiet so the whirring fans shouldn't cause too much distraction.

Other good points to mention are the nVidia 128Mb GeForce 6700XL graphics card, which will play all 3D games at a high resolution. And the recordable DVD drive that writes to all disc formats bar DVD-RAM and will also print monochrome images onto LightScribe-compatible discs.

There's also a data bay above the case for attaching Medion's external 250Gb hard disk -- 'HDDrive2 go'. This doesn't come with the PC but can be bought for [pounds sterling]100 at the same time as the MD 8800.

Every port and socket imaginable can be found on the back, or behind a panel on the front. This includes USB 2 and FireWire offerings, plus SCART, S-Video and components sockets for connecting to displays. There's also optical audio ports, a 7.1 sound card and a built-in wireless networking adapter.

It comes with a Medion-branded keyboard, mouse and headset for internet telephone calls (120min of Skype calls are included free). There's lots of software for editing digital video, playing photo slideshows and creating CDs and DVDs. Microsoft Works Suite 2006 is also included, as is a 90-day trial of eTrust Anti Virus and a three-year return-to-base warranty.

In short, it's a fantastic computer. The clause is that it's only available for two weeks from 24 November but can be re-ordered from Aldi Stores up until the

7th of December, unlike the PCs in our group test on page 66, which are ongoing.

Luke Peters

Good points Fast processor, three dual TV tuners, lots of software

bad points No monitor

Packed with everything you could possibly want from a modern-day computer, and then some

overall HHHHH

Contact Aldi 0870 513 4262

Info www.aldi-stores.co.uk

Retail Price [pounds sterling]750

BuyAldi stores only

Also consider...

HP m7041.uk. [pounds sterling]799. Again, no monitor but great value

for a Media Center Edition computer. HHHH Issue 198

LaBranche & Co Inc. to Present at Salomon Smith Barney Electronic Financial Services Conference.

LaBranche & Co Inc. announced today that Michael LaBranche, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer will be presenting at the Salomon Smith Barney Electronic Financial Services Conference on Wednesday, November 6, 2002 from 11:30AM to 11:55 AM (Eastern Time) in New York City, New York.

The presentation will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed via the Company's web site located at http://www.labranche.com/.

Please allow extra time prior to the presentation to visit the site and download the streaming media software required to listen to the Internet broadcast.

Founded in 1924, LaBranche is a leading Specialist firm. The Company is the Specialist for more than 650 companies, nine of which are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 30 of which are in the S&P 100 Index and 102 of which are in the S&P 500 Index. In addition, LaBranche acts as the Specialist in over 120 options.

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CONTACT: Larry Prendergast, Executive Vice President of Finance, or Harvey S. Traison, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, both of LaBranche & Co Inc., +1-212-425-1144; Investors - Michael Polyviou, or Lanie Fladell; Media - Scot Hoffman, +1-212-850-5600, all of FD Morgen-Walke for LaBranche & Co Inc.

New Haven, Conn., Advertising Firm Opens First U.K. Satellite Office.

By Steve Higgins, New Haven Register, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 16--NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Mascola, a marketing and advertising firm, has opened its first satellite office, on the southern coast of England.

The area is a stronghold of British-based marine manufacturers, and Mascola has several major marine-industry clients with headquarters in the United Kingdom.

"A tremendous number of marine manufacturers in Great Britain want to market to North America," said founder and President Chuck Mascola.

Mascola said he landed accounts with the North American subsidiaries of several British marine companies and ultimately ended up with the international accounts as well.

Two of Mascola's major clients, for instance, are Lewmar Ltd. and Raymarine, both headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Lewmar sells 25 percent of its marine hardware products in the United States, and Raymarine sells most of its marine electronics products in the United States.

In starting its U.K. branch, Mascola has formed an alliance with Neil Young, a British marketing professional based in Hampshire, England.

"He has significant experience and credibility," Mascola said. "We wanted to provide someone who is British to be the main contact for British-based companies."

Young, managing director of Neil Young Associates, will act as head of Mascola's U.K. operations.

"This alliance really is a win-win situation for U.K.-based companies looking to or currently marketing their products in the United States," Young said. "Additionally, the relationship will work both ways, with U.S.-based companies seeking to market themselves in the U.K. and Europe."

Robert Hill, director of Lewmar, praised the expansion.

"The presence of a U.K. office ensures that our communications across the pond will be even clearer and more consistent," Hill said.

Founded in 1989, Mascola, at 436 Forbes Ave., offers advertising, public relations and Internet marketing services.

The agency's clients also include Navtec Rigging Solutions, Ritchie Navigation, Okemo Mountain Resort, Stonewater Spas and various tourism destinations in Connecticut.

Mascola said he is considering opening other satellite offices, including in Florida, but no plans are in the works at this time.

To see more of New Haven Register, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.nhregister.com

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NEWS CORP DENIES DODGERS DEAL.(Sports)

Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES

TAMPA, Fla. -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp denied an Internet report that it has reached an agreement in principle to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers to Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer.

CBSSportsLine.com reported yesterday Glazer and News Corp agreed to a sale price "between $400 and $450 million."

The report, citing "highly placed sources," said the deal would include Dodger Stadium, the team's spring training facility in Vero Beach, Fla. and the club's Dominican Republic properties. The deal would be finalized sometime in late October or November, pending approval from Major League Baseball and the NFL.

The report also said "Glazer will agree to sell the Buccaneers in exchange for landing rights to a future NFL franchise in Los Angeles."

"The story is just wrong," News Corp spokesman Andrew Butcher told the Times. "Nothing is imminent."

RED SOX, WHITE SOX, YANKEES MAKE DEALS: The Red Sox acquired Reds closer Scott Williamson for a minor league pitcher, a player to be named and an undisclosed amount of cash.

Meanwhile, the White Sox acquired left-hander Scott Schoeneweis and a minor league pitcher from the Angels for reliever Gary Glover and two minor league pitchers.

The Yanks traded outfielder Raul Mondesi and about $2 million to the Diamondbacks for outfielder David Dellucci, right-hander Bret Prinz and a minor leaguer.